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“For the Lordwill not reject us forever.Even if He causes suffering,He will show compassionaccording to His abundant, faithful love.For He does not enjoy bringing afflictionor suffering on mankind.” (Lamentations 3:31-33)

The book of Lamentations was written by the prophet Jeremiah. If there was someone who understood lamenting, it was Jeremiah. He was a prophet who was charged with speaking God’s truth to the people. But the people would not listen. And because they would not listen and repent, judgement came and the people suffered including Jeremiah.

Even throughout the book of Lamentations where there is lamenting and grief throughout, there is also hope. These verses are a part of that hope. Jeremiah reminds the people that God does have abundant, faithful love for his people. He does want to bring His people back from suffering and pain. He “will not reject us forever”.

Sometimes when we are going through painful times and we are in that valley of suffering, we feel that it never ends. Months or even years may pass and the suffering we feel never ends. But these verses remind us that even though it seems never ending, it is not. God will bring it to end. He loves us and though we may deal with suffering, we have hope because of Jesus Christ. We are not rejected forever because we have been accepted through Christ’s work on the cross. We may still endure pain and suffering on this Earth but it will not last forever.

This week, as we may going through our own pains and sufferings, let us rest in the hope that it will not last forever. That the steadfast love of God endures and He will deliver us.

For this week’s “Thursday Quote Day” here is another quote from author J.R.R. Tolkien:

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” (J.R.R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring)